God willing, this is the year we take our country back.

Let’s go get ‘em!

God has not forsaken our country. May He give us the courage to stand up for the truth..

deserved to be shut down, to 2012-2013, should be the years in which O Care is tossed to the trash heap of history, the EPA big cheeses are summarily dismissed, and the UN climate change group is defunded while American gas oil industry becomes unfettered in its production capacity.
2011 the year that ended with the USD breaking out and gold going into a bear market.
Buy US bonds cause they are better than anything else out there. Go 30 year bond.LOL for stocks.

Lane followed up on his first email later in the day with another blast against Drudge and other Romney sympathizers, and declaring that pro-Mitt forces are hoping “that Santorum does well in Iowa.” Lane’s second email is after the jump …

Friends,

There’s only one thing wrong with Dionne and Drudge’s logic…probably 3 of the 4 Evangelical candidates in Iowa (after January 3rd) don’t go forward (Newt, Perry, Santorum or Bachmann)

The liberal Media and “Policy Boys” are giving Santorum a bump in Iowa at just the right time (if we had 2-3 weeks we could discuss Santorum backing Specter over Toomey in 04′, which cost Santorum his PA Senate seat in 2006
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/12/29/rick-santorum-earmarxists-and-the-pro-life-statist/

Then in 2008
Santorum endorses Romney, Hates McCain
and finally in 2008
Santorum endorses McCain over Huckabee in the 08′ Primary

…Romney needs Santorum in Iowa real bad…if Newt or Rick Perry get their ticket punched in Iowa, Romney’s dead

FOX (i.e., Krauthammer-former Mondale speech writer, brilliant, and certainly no Evangelical), National Review, Drudge Report, Ann Coulter, et al, have pulled out all the stops, they’re swinging for the fence for Romney

If Iowa Evangelicals will wake-up, the sound of the swirl of the porcelain oval will be Romney going down the toilet.

Romney’s only hope is that Santorum does well in Iowa, why?

Santorum pulls votes directly from Newt or Perry in Iowa

Newt 12′ announced yesterday it’s raised about $9M for the 4th Quarter…Santorum probably raised less than $400K
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9782745-gingrich-campaign-says-it-raised-about-9m-in-fourth-quarter

Why is Romney pulling for Santorum?

If Santorum were to win the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd, he gets his ticket punched out of Iowa…

and then what?

Santorum has to spend $2-3M per week (the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of January–$6-$10M) to compete in the 10 media markets for the Florida Primary January 31st…and Santorum’s broke

Alas, maybe one day our constituency will wake up

…but our DC leadership and “Policy Boys” are playing checkers on a checker board, and the game is actually chess.

DL

All our contentious voices, everyone expressing them, to each and all: Don’t get despondent and don’t become embittered. Hold fast to your principles but be willing to understand others disagree.

On more corporeal things:

Do something nice for yourselves, each of you. I remember here when Mike Krempasky quit smoking a few years ago. I can attest what a difficult thing that is to do.

Do something healthy for yourselves in this new year. Don’t overindulge tonight, and think about how to make yourselves healthier and happier. Slim down. My goal is to lose another 30 pounds I gained as a result of living with irascible liberals in Chicago.

Give generously to your friends, your churches, and your local civic organizations. Have a voice in everything you care about and be clear and reasonable, not bombastic and scatterbrained. Renew again for yourself the desire to read and admire our Constitution and understand it. Accept nothing less from America than believing it must still remain the Land of Opportunity.

Take it upon yourself to help, to the greatest extent of your abilities, those around you who are less fortunate and those who are caught in circumstances beyond their control. Exercise good judgment and try with everything you have to help them. Do your best to understand that in difficult times the measure of our worth as a nation will be how well we pull through adversity together and build a better future.

Above all, be proud to be Americans and continue to love our country. May God bless us all in this new year. Above all, let us all work productively toward better days ahead.

Save money when you can, spend money when you should, and don’t cheat. Hold our politicians – your politicians – accountable for their lapses of judgment and do so as thoughtful people.

Above all work to counteract this antideluvian baloney and hocus pocus about Mayan catatstrophic 2012 predictions and a lack of belief in Democracy. Persuade people with your ideas and your decency. Love each other. Love your children and your parents. Find ways to bring work and business to places where they don’t exist. Think about ways to reinvigorate America. Make a moral resolution to be a Square Dealer with other people.

Understand your rights and your liberties and defend them with eveything you have. And above all:

Don’t take anything you have for granted. Nothing is promised to you, and everything ultimately comes from you.

Happy New Year!

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311 days until the defeat of Barack Obama! I will support whoever is nominated to face Obama. As I live in Wyoming, we probably aren’t going to have much of a voice in who will be the nominee, so my focus will be on defeating the worst president our country has ever had to endure.

Iowa Poll Dec 27-30: Romney leads at 24. Paul 22, Santorum 15, Gingrich 12, Perry 11, Bachmann 7.

But there’s a twist!

Final 2 days of DMRegister polling alone: Santorum elbows ahead to 21, Paul in 3rd at 18. Romney remains same at top, 24. Others same order

Here’s the DM Register story: story on Iowa results: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/31/romney-leads-paul-in-new-des-moines-register-iowa-poll-santorum-surging/

Maybe I was one of the lucky ones. I live in an ancient house that I bought in 1978 and still drive my first car (’55 Ford Fairlane) daily. Obviously the house was paid off decades ago, and the car was purchased for cash on the spot, back in 1972 when I was 16, so I cant remember what it was like to have a loan payment to make each month.
Through the year as utility rate hikes and other forms of inflation took effect, I found ways to cut costs by lowering my standard of living in an effort to keep from going into the red. Here in the “black-and-blue” State of illinois, we had a 66% income tax increase, which I will need to pay on Jan 15th. In 2010 I became an independent consultant as many companies around continued to downsize. So, now, I have absolutely no benefits and became unable to obtain health insurance. However I was able to get a lot of work with a small company thru 2010 and 2011. Prior to the economic downturn, I earned $25.00 per hour working direct, full-time for a company. I agreed to work for $18.00 per hour for the small company I am now working for, so income has dropped drastically. However, an accounting of my 2011 receivables and expenditures shows that even though I had only earned about $12,000 for the year 2011, I still saved about $2000 over the year.
Some of the things I did to cut expenditures include:
Disconnecting power to the garage, except when power was needed.
Unplugging lamps and appliances when not in use.
Use a portable electric heater during winter to reduce natural gas usage. I got a substantially lower utility bill from doing this.
Discontinued cable TV service.
Discontinued land-line telephone service. Thats a savings of $396/year. Now I use Majic-Jack for my phone service. It only costs $20/year (all calls are free).
The drawback to that is; I power-down my computer when it is not in use, so you cannot place calls on the phone, but it will take a message if incoming calls occur during the time the computer is off.
During the warm weather months I planted a vegetable garden. I never needed to buy any vegetables at the grocery while the garden was producing, and I actually gave away more than I used myself. I tilled the garden myself with an old roto-tiller, and the seeds only cost a couple bucks, so I was able to substantially reduce my grocery bill. But it was A LOT of work keeping the garden in good shape.
I do all my home and car repairs myself, so there was no need for emergency spending if something broke. The week before Christmas, my ’55 Ford carburator got clogged up. It took me 5 minutes to remove the carb, 15 more minutes to take it apart and anothr 15 to clean it. I didnt spend any money fixing the carb, but I did spend a couple bucks on a new gas filter.
Meanwhile, my neighbors 10 year old car broke down and costed him over $1000 to get it fixed not counting the towing charge. So, am I the lucky one? If so, I can’t find anyone who would give you a plug nickel for my house or my junk car either one.
In 2011, my earnings and standard of living decreased drastically, but I am still in the black for now. I have been wanting to move to find new opportunity elsewhere (out of illinois), but I am stuck until the housing market starts gaining some ground again. A lot of people are in the same boat. They cant move unless they are willing to lose tens of thousands of dollars in the equity they have in their current home. It is impossible to make-up that kind of a loss in this economy.
In summary, 2011 seems like a year that stood still for me. Despite all the effort, I was unable to make much measurable gain financially. But the larger damage, was due to the 35% loss I suffered during the market crash of ’08 in my retirement funds. I bailed out of the market and have kept what I had left in money market funds ever since, so theres been no increase in the value of my funds, but I have felt that the stock market has been much too volatile to get back into.
2012 will be one more year of 0bamas failed economic policies and a huge loss for the American people. I am NOT looking forward to 2012 ! We must put conservative Republicans in every branch of govt we can in Nov 2012. I cannot see at this point how I can continue to hold my own for another four more years of campaigner-in-cheif 0bama.

Time to try out the new whiskey stones my kid got me for Christmas…

Lets not blow it.

2012 will be the year we take out the trash.

Happy New Year and thanks for all you do.

that we “get it right” in November. (That would be with Rick Perry, of course!)

And I would like to thank all of you who are so special to me and who have helped me along the way these months at RS. What a special place this is for me!

God bless and keep you all!

I just shared half a bottle of Merlot that I brought back from Italy with my wife. If I didn’t live in the greatest country in the world (USA), I’d live in Italy.

Looking forward to an exciting 2012 and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the great folks here!

I enjoy the conversation on Red State. I enjoy the opportunity to discuss my former Governor Rick Perry. We loved living in TX and saw first hand his abilities not only as Governor but in other roles. We moved to Florida the middle of last year to be near family. Red State gives me a forum to share my knowledge of Governor Perry. Hopefully 2012 will be a good year for all of us.

You make some ridiculous claim, & I address every single thing you say and more…and then you don’t respond.

Probably I suspect, cuz you’re like “let me cut my losses, maybe no one will see it” if I don’t respond to it.

You’re as incompetent as your candidate. Fine. I’m not going to give well thought-out responses to propagandists anymore. I read “Perry” I go the other way…just don’t pretend the post doesn’t exist. He’s beyond finished anyway, so what’s the point?

Have your “tiny victory for today”, Perry dudes. Like your candidate, you probably couldn’t even write your own name on a grocery receipt, let alone come up w/ any reasons that make any sense why he should rule the most powerful country the world has ever seen.

I post this link, not to call anyone out, but merely to show that when they thought I was a Romney drone, there were five responses…when they find out that’s not true, and I refute everything they say…nothing…

Same as their candidate Perry: Nothing. All hat and no cattle. That’s a shame. Oh, yeah, such a shame! And it’s a pattern on other threads too.

Pro Tip: it’s not the world’s or the Party’s fault that Rick Perry peed the political bed nine times in a row. Put rubber underwear on him next time.

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/12/31/va-ag-cuccinelli-to-fix-primary-ballot-mess/#comment-62226

I’ve been debating this now for a while. I just don’t like Santorum. I think his politics are toxic for the future of the Republican Party and the future of The Church. We need to be emphasizing fiscal conservatism, not social conservatism.

So who’s better? I’m almost inclinded to say I’d rather have Mitt Romney. My order as of now is as follows:

1. Newt
2. Perry
3. Huntsman
4. Romney
5. Bachmann
6. Santorum
7. Paul

Am I off base here?

Enjoy.

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This would account for the discrepancy in the large enthusiastic crowds at Perry’s campaign stops vs. the coffee house gatherings at Santorum’s events.

And so it is.
Anyhow, the Clerk at the store couldn’t believe I wasn’t sure…
\ Or couldn’t believe I didn’t care. Ah… to be young.
Happy New Years to all in my new RedState Family!
Now the Wife left some doggie dope for the fireworks because he doesn’t care for them.. if I can find it, I will see how it goes with Moosehead Beer..

New Year’s Day is a contrived holiday, but this is my happiest ever because this is the year that we will get rid on the America-hating President Barack Obama.

And to start off the New Year, you could’ve guessed it, a vid.

1. Perry – true conservative, has brain farts, 2nd amendment, 10th amendment, government shrinker
2. Newt – idea man, baggage, will sell out for power and a buck
3. Huntsman – stuffy, disconnected, mostly conservative
4. Bachmann – true conservative, never lets the truth get in the way of a good soundbite, abrasive, annoying
5. Santorum – family values, big government solutions, whinny
6. Romney – politically soulless, no true convictions he won’t exchange for power, poster boy for Obama’s villian, doesn’t relate to the common voter
7. Paul – economic conservative, a little nutty, supported by many real nutjobs, foreign policy niave.

That is my order. Perry is the only candidate that is a solid, across-the-board conservative, will take it to Obama, outsider, solid record, will excite the base. Perry only real flaw (minor issues ignored) is his gaffe prone performances. He has greatly improved these. He has an apparent nack for getting under an opponents skin without appearing to attack.

Presidential elections are won by the most likeable candidate, not the issues, ideology, running mate, region, economic conditions, debate performance, etc. These factors establish or remove likeability, but are mostly irrelevant compared to likeability. The swing voter by in large puts less thought into voting as who they want to win American Idol. It sounds simplistic, but talk to a few sometime. They don’t sweat the big stuff, much less the small. Bachmann would be higher if she could stick to the truth. Paul would be higher if the Presidents power over economic and foreign policy was reversed, so he could actually dismantle most of the federal goverment and be checked by Congress on his hands-off, isolationist foreign policy. We need a less hawkish President than most of the Republicans, but not a Ron Paul on the other end. Perry seems to have a good balance.

May your best in 2011 be your worst in 2012.

It’s been a rollercoaster year for my family, but I’m thankful for the many blessings in my life. My God, my family, my country, my friends, my job, and everything that comes with having each of those things.

Thanks to redstate for being my political family.

Romney and Obama, it is like being caught in a bear trap. You have a gun and a knife with no other options. Do you cut off your leg (vote for Romney) or shoot yourself in the head (vote for Obama)? Is rather live. A bit morbid, but a good analogy. Here’s to hoping we have bolt cutters!

Vote Perry 2012!